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After spending several years touring the country as a stand up comedian, Ed Brayton tired of explaining his jokes to small groups of dazed illiterates and turned to writing as the most common outlet for the voices in his head. He has appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show and the Thom Hartmann Show, and is almost certain that he is the only person ever to make fun of Chuck Norris on C-SPAN.

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Long Time Moron, First Time Babbler

Right Wing Watch has the transcript of a ridiculous call to the radio show hosted by Buster Wilson of the American Family Association. See if you can make any sense of this rambling hodgepodge of stupidity from a caller:

Wilson: Cynthia, thanks for calling from Palestine, Texas, glad to have you on.

Caller: Thank you sir, I just want to say nobody is bringing up the fact that that Muslim shot up Fort Hood and they knew he was on the move to do that, and Benghazi you bet and the Border Patrol, where’s the bullets for them? But you want to come out here and you want to take everything we’ve got and set up the Muslim Brotherhood just clearly shows it’s like a zero dart right into the center. Also talking about holding us hostage to get his ceiling, the checks won’t come, you know, this guy. America, we need to take him out, one way or the other.

That led to an equally moronic diatribe from Wilson and the next caller:

Wilson: Okay Cynthia, thanks for calling. Well I want to be careful on saying things like that we don’t want anybody to think we’re talking about—we don’t support any kind of concept of taking the President out. We had an opportunity to vote him out and the country didn’t take it so he is rightfully our president, he was voted by the majority so there you go, he’s in. but you did sort of sum it all up in one sentence everything from Benghazi to Fort Hood to Fast and Furious to the Border Patrol.

You know something else that a lot of people are not mentioning, I called my dealership that I trade with on a regular basis today to ask about the purchasing of another gun and they didn’t have any. They couldn’t tell me when they were going to have any in, they couldn’t tell me when they were coming, they didn’t know if there were going to be any more coming. She said “until we have the dust settled on all this stuff from yesterday” she couldn’t tell me if there were going to be any more guns coming in stock.

Ammunition, same thing, can’t find ammunition. You can find a few guns but you can’t find ammunition. Somebody asked me last night and I thought it was a perfect question to ask, almost a billion and a half rounds of ammunition purchased last year by the Department of Homeland Security, Border Patrol and even the armed services of the Postal Service ordered a large cache of ammunition. Why is the government ordering these huge, I mean the numbers are unbelievable, almost a billion and a half rounds by Homeland Security alone, why is the government ordering such large amounts of ammunition and you and I, Mr. Average Joe America, can’t find any ammunition? Is it just the supply and demand thing or is there something else going on? I don’t know, I don’t want to be the conspiracy theory guy, but it is a question somebody needs to answer. Let’s talk to John from Alabama.

Caller: Long time no hear Buster. Maybe one day we can get to share a jail cell and praise the Lord together.

Wilson: I hope not but I’m ready to go if need be.

That caller went on to claim that Obama is implementing the Communist Manifesto and creating a Nazi country. Simultaneously.

But you did sort of sum it all up in one sentence everything from Benghazi to Fort Hood to Fast and Furious to the Border Patrol.

No, that was no summing up. He forgot the Illuminati, the Bilderberg Group, the Vatican, the French Freemasons, and the shape-shifting lizard- race from outer space. For shame. We should consider taking away his tinfoil hat.

Is Wilson suggesting that the gun and ammo shortage is the government’s doing?
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Holy cow; the paranoia the NRA drummed up with the school shooting and Obama’s impending inauguration cleaned out all US gun dealerships in a month – long after the various government agencies bought their ammo.
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When I hear a Right Wing talking head say something like this: I don’t want to be the conspiracy theory guy, but it is a question somebody needs to answer. I figure that he knows it’s bullshit but he wants his listeners to think it’s true.

You know, reading this, my reaction was to give him full marks for his first two sentences. There are a lot of jibber-jabberers out there who wouldn’t take the time or risk looking sane in front of their audience.

That ain’t nothin’ compared to the stupidity and craziness from a typical WND comment forum. I remember one commentator who whined about President Obama getting Secret Service protection (seriously). Another one seemed to think that Obama getting impeached would mean him and his entire family getting thrown in jail (again, seriously).

All this hatred is flowing and oozing downhill from somewhere.
I rather suspect that xtian sensibilities are the fount of all this toxic sludge, the logic fits in like a dovetail to their dogma in other areas and the shear poisonous stench of righteousness and paranoia is the xtian way!

The theist mind control cults seem totally complicit in the support and encouragement for the barking wingnuts that vomit this putrescent garbage as much as they can hiding behind the principle of free speech.
Even so some get so carried away with their bile that they trespass on legally actionable statements.
It is like a gamesmanship challenge, who can get as near as to demand an execution of a President of the USA and his family on public radio without getting busted for incitement or hate speech.
Some clearly do cross the line in taste, argument, and legality and the bitterness is palpable that they cannot goad some hothead to live their fantasy and make their day, I wonder if the FBI are taking notice?

I mean, I KNOW they were busy with real important election issues and couldn’t be bothered with what appears to be 180 degree (or maybe it’s, like, 1260 degree, three and a half axel of teh burnin’ stoopit) about two-face on Ms. Sarah’s part, re: gunz.

BTW, BorisIlyichvladimirivan Putin says that he can see Sarah in the shower (not from his front porch, but with the aid of a hunter/killer satellite) and she’s not all that.